On World Habitat Day Ian Mutch explains why we shouldn’t be looking to gain More and More and More
Debut author Ian Mutch’s picture book More and More and More is published today, on World Habitat Day.
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CEO Jane Fraser says October is shaping up to be a great month for foreign rights sales
If you were an author and you found a hole in the front cover of your book – you’d be alarmed rather than excited right? That’s not the case with the wonderful Kelly Canby, who was delighted to find a die cut hole smack bang in the middle of the Korean language edition of her latest book.
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Read an extract from Spinifex & Sunflowers
Avan Judd Stallard's novel Spinifex & Sunflowers goes behind the walls of an immigration detention centre in an honest, and at times harrowing, exploration of life as an asylum seeker in modern Australia.
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CEO Jane Fraser gets first glimpse of the stage play version of Tracy Farr’s latest novel
Earlier this year, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts acquired the stage rights to The Hope Fault by Tracy Farr. With the ink barely dry on the contract, or so it seems to me, I had the pleasure and privilege of being at the very first workshop for the stage adaptation by Andrew Hale.
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Rafeif Ismail says there is no single refugee story, queer story, migrant, Muslim or African story
Meet Me at the Intersection contributor Rafeif Ismail is a Perth-based, emerging Muslim writer who is a refugee from Sudan identifying as queer. She will be on a panel focusing on diversity at the Great Big Book Club Tea Party, an event co-hosted by the City of Melville and Fremantle Press at AH Bracks Library on 21 October.
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Six simple tips from Rebecca Lim for reflecting diversity in the classroom
As Fremantle Press gets ready to publish YA anthology Meet Me at the Intersection, one of the book’s editors, Rebecca Lim, offers six tips for how to reflect diversity in class materials and discussions.
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CEO Says: Jane Fraser reports on her trip to New York
I was very lucky to be selected to join eight others on The Australia Council’s Publishing Delegation to New York in June.
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CEO Says: By the time you read this I will be in New York
Hello from NYC, where I am one of eight delegates attending the Australia Council’s New York Publishers Program. Before you get jealous, I’m also bussing back and forth between the New York Rights Fair and New York BookExpo with a big bunch of Fremantle Press books. Needless to say, I’ve got my running shoes on!
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CEO sees audio and screen on the horizon for Fremantle Press authors
Welcome to May! As I write this I am finishing up my time at the Australia Council’s Visiting International Publishers program where I’ve been talking to publishers, scouts and agents. This year’s program included representatives from Germany, India, Spain, France, the US, Denmark, the Netherlands, the UK and Canada. It’s way too early to talk about any results from the program as yet but I do have a couple of other exciting rights announcements to make instead.
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Where do our stories come from and how can new authors connect with Fremantle Press?
From the slush pile to a $12,000 prize, and from writers centres to universities, if you’ve ever wanted to be an author, publisher Georgia Richter’s reflections about where writers come from, what she’s looking for in a writer, and how you can engage with Fremantle Press, will be invaluable.
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